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Article: Communicating standards.(Swine Industry News)(animal welfare standards )(Brief Article)
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- Feedstuffs
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- May 17, 2004
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A University of British Columbia animal welfare professor said the challenge in developing animal welfare standards is to find the right balance and communicate it to the consumer.
Auditable animal welfare programs for hog producers, intended to address consumer questions about how animals are raised, are being developed in both Canada and the U.S.
Dr. David Fraser said one of the challenges is to identify what these standards should contain to be workable, good for the animals and responsive to the market, and another is to communicate those standards to the public.
"What we're starting to see world wide is a set of quite different standards, ...